The little snippet of Python code strikes fast and nasty, taking less than three hours to complete a ransomware attack from initial breach to encryption. Researchers have discovered a new Python ...

A refined database of 88K U.S. business owners on LinkedIn has been posted in a hacker forum. Just days after a yet another data-scraping operation aimed at LinkedIn was discovered, evidence has ...

From more widescale, powerful distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, to privacy issues in children’s connected toys, here are the top IoT disasters in 2019.

Lockbit is by far this summer’s most prolific ransomware group, trailed by two offshoots of the Conti group. After a recent dip, ransomware attacks are back on the rise. According to data released by ...

Here’s what cybersecurity watchers want infosec pros to know heading into 2022. No one could have predicted the sheer chaos the cybersecurity industry would experience over the course of 2021.

A full 98 percent of all IoT device traffic is unencrypted, exposing personal and confidential data on the network. More than half of all internet of things (IoT) devices are vulnerable to medium- or ...

The malvertiser’s use of PowerShell could push it beyond its basic capabilities to spread ransomware, spyware or steal data from browser sessions, researchers warn. ChromeLoader may seem on the ...

Users of GnuPG, OpenSSL and Git could be in danger from an attack that’s practical for ordinary attackers to carry out. A proof-of-concept attack has been pioneered that “fully and practically” breaks ...

Refusal to unlock the phones of a Florida shooter could set up another legal battle between Apple and the Feds over data privacy in the case of criminal investigations. Apple once again is drawing the ...

Chipmaker investigates a leak of intellectual property from its partner and customer resource center. More than 20 gigabytes of proprietary data and source code from chipmaker Intel Corp. was dumped ...

Bad actor obtained passwords for servers, home routers, and smart devices by scanning internet for devices open to the Telnet port. A hacker has published a list of credentials for more than 515,000 ...

August Patch Tuesday tackles 121 CVEs, 17 critical bugs and one zero-day bug exploited in the wild. Microsoft is urging users to patch a zero-day vulnerability dubbed Dogwalk that is actively being ...